Academics Point to New Theory for Depth of Irish Crisis

By

Paul Hannon

Dec 13, 2013 9:06 am ET

As the Irish government prepares to celebrate the end of its three-year bailout program Sunday, economists still struggle to understand how one of the world’s richest economies, with one of the lowest shares of government debt, came to rely so much and so suddenly on the kindness of strangers.

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